“Catfish: The TV Show,” “The Biggest Loser,” “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition” — you name it, and Holland Weathers has probably casted for it. The 2002 Auburn communications graduate is currently the casting social media director for MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show.” In the wake of the scandal surrounding Notre Dame star Manti Te’o’s fake […]
Archives for January 2013
Auburn cartoonist legend Bill Holbrook’s comic about performance-enhancing deer antlers (from 2009)
Bill Holbrook, the pen behind such noted comic strips as On The Fastrack, Safe Havens, and Kevin & Kell, and arguably the best Plainsman cartoonist ever, has apparently been commenting on / predicting Bama players’ alleged abuse of deer antler spray (street name: Rudolph Binaca) for years. Here’s a Kevin & Kel strip from 2009: […]
Early Auburn band instruments (with awesome Auburn logos)
Auburn’s was not always the $11 Million Dollar band Bama students know today. But that didn’t mean it’s earliest and humblest of instruments couldn’t look awesome, like this drum from the early 1900s with a fantastic Auburn Tiger logo lost to the ages. Auburn logos later to applied to marching band drums had a bit […]
Charles “In Charge” Barkley signing autographs for Auburn fans, 1984
Another winner from the SI Vault. Here’s Charles Barkley signing autographs for Auburn fans after a game in the awesome year 1984. For a list of the names Auburn’s A.K.A. Buffet could be writing down, click here. h/t @PrestonHornsby. Related: Winn Dixie Beef Boy: In College, Charles Barkley was an A.K.A. buffet. … Keep Reading: * […]
Kenan Thompson and Aubie
Last fall, it was Bill Nye. Last night, Aubie got some quality bro time with another icon of 90s kid nostalgia, Kenan Thompson, star of the critically acclaimed 1997 film “Good Burger” (“Whoaa–a clock!”) and current SNL cast member, after he did his thing at Auburn Arena. You can “watch” Thompson’s hour-long stand up routine […]